We are one third of the way done with school this year. That is good because high school really is awful and none of us can wait for college.
We just took the exam last week and it was unbelievably easy. Seriously it was a bit of a joke. It was easier than any quiz or test. It's ironic that the exams we are given throughout high school tend to get easier. I think it's good though because we work hard throughout the trimester and it is nice to have a break week where we have half day and easy class.
What we are working on now is real world applications of derivatives. I think one word to describe how I feel about this is, "Finally". We have been working with this junk for 2 months, and with little idea at all on how any of this could be used in real life. Well now that we know, it is a lot more interesting to work on them. I enjoy working on story problems because I feel that I am pretty good at applying knowledge we have learned and solving things.
My favorite part of working on these problems is when you configure a ramshackle equation, type it in with little ida of what you might get for a graph, and then in return, get a beautiful curve with a perfect maximum in your viewing window. It almost makes everything that we have done in the past months worth it, for that small triumph of knowing that you did it correctly. I am not sure how often derivatives would actually be used for real world situations, but it is nice knowing that we have the ability to solve things like it, I suppose. Here is a link for more real world applications of this type of calculus ~~CLICK ME
We just took the exam last week and it was unbelievably easy. Seriously it was a bit of a joke. It was easier than any quiz or test. It's ironic that the exams we are given throughout high school tend to get easier. I think it's good though because we work hard throughout the trimester and it is nice to have a break week where we have half day and easy class.
What we are working on now is real world applications of derivatives. I think one word to describe how I feel about this is, "Finally". We have been working with this junk for 2 months, and with little idea at all on how any of this could be used in real life. Well now that we know, it is a lot more interesting to work on them. I enjoy working on story problems because I feel that I am pretty good at applying knowledge we have learned and solving things.
My favorite part of working on these problems is when you configure a ramshackle equation, type it in with little ida of what you might get for a graph, and then in return, get a beautiful curve with a perfect maximum in your viewing window. It almost makes everything that we have done in the past months worth it, for that small triumph of knowing that you did it correctly. I am not sure how often derivatives would actually be used for real world situations, but it is nice knowing that we have the ability to solve things like it, I suppose. Here is a link for more real world applications of this type of calculus ~~CLICK ME